Break through to the next level of ski performance! Renowned instructor,
coach, and ski technique expert Ron LeMaster takes you beyond The Skier's
Edge by improving, expanding, and enhancing that seminal work. The
result, Ultimate Skiing, will help you master the mechanics of great
skiing as never before--explaining how it's done, showing how it looks,
and describing how it feels.

LeMaster has made Ultimate Skiing a comprehensive manual on ski
technique. Learn how skis interact with the snow and how best to manipulate
your skis, boots, and poles on the steepest slopes, in monster mogul fields,
and through the deepest powder. Technique tips and kinesthetic cues help
translate the sensation of each movement.

Throughout, LeMaster incorporates his one-of-a-kind, full-color photo
montages and 3-D diagrams to take you onto the slopes and into the action.
These phenomenal images capture some of the world's greatest skiers while
illustrating the correct techniques for every condition and terrain.

To get the most out of your skiing potential, you need the ultimate
in ski instruction. You need Ultimate Skiing.

By one of the world's leading instructors, a step-by-step guide to
mastering the new shaped skis.Fat boys, carving skis, cross skis, extreme shaped skis: that is the
new language of alpine skiing. This best-selling classic has been completely
rewritten to explain what makes the shaped skis so revolutionary--and so
exciting, especially for beginners. With over 300 specially commissioned
color photographs showing step by step how to turn and how to maintain
control easily under all conditions, and with its clear text, this is the
book for a new generation of alpine skiers. Featuring more than eighty
unique stop-action photographic sequences, The New Guide to Skiing
shows how to ski with greater ease, precision, and control while obtaining
optimum performance from shaped skis. Based on the newest and least stressful
methods, it demonstrates how to deal with skiing off trail or in deep powder
and illustrates the eleven specific turns needed to master difficult conditions,
including ice and moguls. 300 color photographs

The
Essential Guide to Skiing: 201 Things Every Skier Must Knowby Ron LeMaster
Paperback from Peak Sports PressISBN: 0974625418The Essential Guide to Skiing
is no rehash of the standard "how to ski" books, simply updated with newer
pictures of newer equipment and clothing. Nor is it "Skiing for Dummies."
Instead, it is a comprehensive book packed with authoritative advice on
every aspect of the sport. For novices, there is information on how to
walk in ski boots, when and where to rent equipment, and where to attach
a lift ticket. Experienced skiers can learn how to find the shortest lift
lines to the best slopes, discover the best goggle lens colors for flat
light, and uncover the best powder stashes even when the mountain looks
skied out. Other subjects range from the financial (finding the cheapest
lift tickets) to the mundane (evaluating the fiber content of a pair of
ski socks) to the creative (how to take great action pictures and videos).
Extensive black-and-white photographs add to the fun.

A New, Completely Revised Edition of the Classic Guide to Better Skiing
Have you been searching for a way to overcome your fear, trust your
instincts, and ski to your greatest potential? Inner Skiing will help you
do all this and more. In this newly updated edition of the skiing classic,
W. Timothy Gallwey and Robert Kriegel offer advice on and examples of how
to gain the "inner" self-confidence needed to ski well and have fun on
the slopes.
Inner Skiing will help you:
Focus on each step of a particular technique (like the parallel turn),
then put it all together so that the motion seems effortless
Analyze your fears to distinguish between healthy fear and unnecessary
fear that you can overcome
Achieve "breakthrough" runs in which you experience natural and coordinated
movements
Move to the next level in your skiing ability and feel in control
Gallwey and Kriegel are two of the leading innovators in sports, and
this new edition refines the techniques they have perfected over their
long careers. Their easy-to-follow examples and anecdotes will help skiers
of all abilities--from beginner to expert.
Inner Skiing will change the way you ski.

While on the slopes, take advantage of your most powerful muscle. The
authors teach skiers how to relax, concentrate, banish unnecessary fears--and
enjoy themselves. This revised edition of the skiing classic will give
you the self-confidence to excel on the slopes and beyond.

"Covers more information than a week's worth of private lessons."­­Ski
magazine

The All-Mountain Skier helps skiers advance their skills with
a foolproof, self-instructional program for mastering advanced techniques
in even the most challenging conditions. Drawing from his extensive experience
as a ski professional, instructor Mark Elling delivers essential advice
and information­­including tips from other expert skiers­­to
help readers perform like pros.

Learn the key steps to skiing perfection and master the mountain.Harald Harb, inventor of the Primary Movement Teaching System, has
already helped thousands of professional and recreational skiers achieve
ski mastery. Now, Harb reveals the basic lessons that will give you immediate
improvements at any level.
This easy-to-use yet powerful program is proven to create success on
the slopes, whether you are a coach, racer, recreational skier, or just
starting out. With in-depth descriptions and clear, detailed photos, these
techniques and exercises will benefit all skiers.
Harald Harb's Essentials of Skiing will show you how
to:
* Perfectly coordinate your upper and lower body movements
* Increase your balancing ability
* Expertly control speed, carving arcs, flexing and tipping
* Much, much more
Whether you have never strapped on a pair of skis or hit the slopes
every weekend, Harald Harb's Essentials of Skiing is your
guarantee of skiing success.
Bonus FREE video offer included with purchase: Get the latest
video coaching from Harald Harb with the special video offer. Details provided
inside the book to unlock your free skiing video companion to Essentials
of Skiing.

What type of skier are you? What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses?
How can you improve your skills and your downhill experience? Total Skiing
was developed specifically to help you answer those questions.

Author and renowned ski instructor Chris Fellows shares his proven pyramid
program for assessing skills and creating your skiing profile. Step by
step, you'll identify exercises to enhance those skills and create a personal
training program to improve functional movement, including stability and
mobility, ski-specific fitness, essential ski techniques, and tactics for
performance on all terrains.

Total Skiing also includes sample programs for each skier type
that offers guidance from preseason to postseason with dry-land and on-snow
drills for foundational, intermediate, and advanced performance solutions.

Whether you are looking to polish your skills, conquer the new terrain,
or compete on circuit, Total Skiing is your total guide to exhilarating
all-mountain skiing!

With the beauty and precision of a poet, Wayne Sheldrake examines his
place in the close community of ski bums, people who give up normality
to live on their own terms. Sheldrake's is a life of recklessness and restlessness,
dedicated to adventure, courage, and the joy of second and third chances.
He maps the hidden trails of virgin snow and conjures the rush of hucking
off cornices and skiing blind in sudden snowstorms with exacting detail,
all the while seeking to understand the bonds of romance, friendship, and
learning to let go. In Sheldrake's universe, instant karma is what happens
when we believe our grandest passion can t be separated from the everyday,
and then live in accordance with that faith.

This is the definitive history of the sport that has exhilarated and
infatuated about 30 million Americans and Canadians over the course of
the last fifty years. Consummate insider John Fry chronicles the rise of
a ski culture and every aspect of the sport's development, including the
emergence of the mega-resort and advances in equipment, technique, instruction,
and competition.
The Story of Modern Skiing is laced with revelations from the author's
personal relationships with skiing greats such as triple Olympic gold medalists
Toni Sailer and Jean-Claude Killy, double gold medalist and environmental
champion Andrea Mead Lawrence, first women's World Cup winner Nancy Greene,
World Alpine champion Billy Kidd, Sarajevo gold and silver medalists Phil
and Steve Mahre, and industry pioneers such as Vail founder Pete Seibert,
metal ski designer Howard Head, and plastic boot inventor Bob Lange. Fry
writes authoritatively of alpine skiing in North America and Europe, of
Nordic skiing, and of newer variations in the sport: freestyle skiing,
snowboarding, and extreme skiing. He looks closely at skiing's relationship
to the environment, its portrayal in the media, and its response to social
and economic change.
Maps locating major resorts, records of ski champions, and a timeline,
bibliography, glossary, and index of names and places make this the definitive
work on modern skiing. Skiers of all ages and abilities will revel in this
lively tale of their sport's heritage.

This book is a must-have gift for anyone interested in skiing or in
the art of the poster. Organized by country, it features the world's foremost
winter sport by drawing on an unparalleled collection of 800 vintage posters
and paintings. Amassed by Mason Beekley over a lifetime dedicated to the
celebration of all things skiing, the collection is now housed at the Mammoth
Ski Museum in California and open to the public. In the 1910s and 1920s,
skiing became the "in" thing among the young and the fashionable, who made
such glamorous resorts like St. Moritz, Chamonix, and Garmisch famous.
Like car racing, skiing was one of the sports that defined the twentieth-century's
notion of the modern. It combined fast-paced action with the need to appear
in stylish, sporty yet appropriate attire. Since it took place away from
everyday urban life in remote and breathtaking mountain locations, it also
combined the romance of travel with the stylishness of après-ski
social life and ski chalet rusticity. Even in the steamship era, skiing
quickly jumped the Atlantic and spawned such now famous ski resorts such
as Vermont's Stowe, Colorado's Aspen, and Canada's Banff and Whistler (all
featured here in their pre-war glamour). The book is rounded out by chapters
on the contemporary skiing scene and on skiing fashion.

Hellroaring:
Fifty Years on The Big MountainJean Arthur
Hellroaring: Fifty Years on The Big Mountain is a primer of histories,
anecdotes, art photos and memorabilia. The memories and memorabilia belong
to skiers whose ski trails and tales have etched tracks on the mountains
and in the skiing community's collective consciousness for over a half
century.
This book schusses alongside some of the earliest Montana skiers. Their
pioneering winter voyages to the peaks of the Whitefish Mountain Range
in the early 1930s were precursors to the mass escapades into the wintry
mountains decades later.
Paperback

Mammoth:
The Sierra Legendby Martin Forstenzer, Warren Miller
Book Description: California's Mammoth Mountain lives up to
its name — snowfalls are epic, and its vast acreage can be explored by
skiers and snowboarders for days. With 150 color and 50 black-and-white
photographs, this beautifully illustrated book portrays the resort's evolution
from one man's dream to the ranks of the top ten ski resorts in the U.S.
Hardcover from Mountain Sports Press

Powder
Burn: Arson, Money, and Mystery on Vail Mountainby Daniel Glick
On the face of it, this is the story of unsolved arson at a high-glamour
resort, a mystery packed with suspects that range from crusty ski bums
to radical tree huggers to the resort's own corporate honchos. But underlying
this entertaining true-life plot is a greater theme that is playing out
across America. Here, tensions mount between the progress-minded shareholders
of Vail Resorts Inc., environmentalists, and locals who simply pine for
the days when they weren't priced out of having a meal--or a life--in Vail,
Colorado. Elsewhere, similar hostility brews over conflicting interests
in pricey tourist regions like Taos, New Mexico; the Florida Keys; and
the Hamptons of New York. So while Powder Burn is an intriguing tale on
its own, it also serves as a snapshot of our country as it struggles with
its final growing pains. The modern corporatization of Vail Mountain is
in direct contrast to its past, when a hard-drinking fellow could ride
his horse into a bar and turn himself into local legend. Daniel Glick,
a special correspondent for Newsweek, masterfully uses his reporter's eye
for detail to deliver the spirit and breathtaking scenery of the Rocky
Mountain West. He introduces personalities in rapid-fire succession, but,
to his credit, the reader never feels overwhelmed or confused. The descriptions
are so vivid--from the environmentalist tracking lynx paw prints through
the snow to the vacationing company president staking out a Disney World
pay phone as he receives updates on the 1998 fire's damage--that they remain
fixed in the reader's mind as the story unfolds. It's a story that makes
interesting reading for skiers, environmentalists, or anyone intrigued
by the unfolding drama in our last wild places. --Jodi Mailander Farrell
- Amazon.comHardcover: 288 pagesPublic Affairs; ISBN: 1586480030; (January 19, )

Ski
the Whole Mountain: How to Ski Any Condition at Any Timeby Eric Deslauriers, Rob Deslauriers, Hank Devre
Book Description: Eric and Rob DesLauriers are the perfect athletes
to teach someone how to ski the entire mountain â€” not just
the easy trails but steeps, bumps, and difficult snow. The authors are
among the best-known extreme skiers in North America and have appeared
in 23 ski movies. Over the past 15 years they have not only pushed the
envelope of extreme skiing but have discovered a simple yet radical way
to teach it, focusing on three basic moves. The result: beautiful, controlled
skiing turns in any condition from powder to Sierra cement. In addition,
Ski the Whole Mountain provides safe and effective difficult terrain skiing
techniques, including basic avalanche awareness and safety, and features
200 full-color photographs of actual terrain challenges and the keys to
skiing them effectively.
Paperback from Mountain Sports Press